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Headshed lander 5 millioner og ABAX-gründer i sin første emisjon

Fra venstre: Rune Skjei (sittende), Torbjørn Slørdal, Ellen Lippe, Lene-Kristine Garsjø, Magnus Hoem Slørdal Dato: 10-05-2019 07:00 CEST Opprinnelig tittel på pressemeldingen: Headshed lander 5 millioner og ABAX-gründer i sin første emisjon Kategori: , Data, datateknikk, programvare Økonomi, finans

NTNU Accel-selskapet Headshed, som står bak salgssystemet Cube, har hentet inn fem millioner i emisjon. Pengene skal bidra til å rigge selskapet for videre oppskalering.

Med på laget kommer også Petter Quinsgaard, gründeren av ABAX. Han var med å bygge selskapet fra 4 til 400 ansatte. Larvik-selskapet ble nylig solgt til et PE-selskap for 1.8 milliarder kroner. Petter kommer inn som styreleder og investor i selskapet og vil bidra til et allerede sterkt lag med sin internasjonale erfaring og nettverk.

– “Med et sterkt team, et globalt marked og en skalerbar kunderettet løsning som leverer udiskutabel ROI er dette et selskap jeg gleder meg til å se lykkes,” sier Quinsgaard som i likhet med Headshed vektlegger en bærekraftig bedriftskultur, lønnsomhet og trivsel blant ansatte som viktige suksessfaktorer.

CEO Torbjørn Slørdal sier det slik: "Nå har vi styrket laget ytterligere med kompetente og fremoverlente investorer og vi gleder oss til å øke farten inn i et marked med meget stort potensial. Vi har hatt en god start på 2019 og skal ta steg videre slik at selskapet blir førstevalget for bedrifter som ønsker å digitalisere raskere og jobbe smartere med salgsprosessene sine."

Selskapet startet som en spin-off fra salgsmiljøet Consort, hvor gründerne Rune Skjei og Magnus Hoem Slørdal selv kjente på digitale voksesmerter etter hvert som aktiviteten økte i gasellebedriften. Med “bra for salget – bra for folk” som motto ønsker nå Headshed å hjelpe norsk og internasjonalt næringsliv med digitalisering, bærekraftig salgsarbeid og personvern-orientert bruk av data. Dette er fundamentet som vil gjøre det mulig å plugge på de smarte algoritmene der det teller mest – i kontakt med kundene.

Cube, som er selskapets programvare, kobler sammen informasjon og automatiserer manuelle prosesser knyttet til kundekontakt og salg. Løsningen er allerede i bruk hos blant andre Gjensidige Bank, som forteller om en halvering av behandlingstiden pr kunde. Cube har også bidratt sterkt til at bedrifter har doblet omsetningen sin.

Pressekontakt: Magnus Hoem Slørdal

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Telefon: +47 402 18 008

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Kilde: Pressekontor Headshed – PRESSEMELDING –

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I’m beginning to think he, or should I say it, might be. The boss had twelve hours of dental surgery on Friday, it was meant to be 8 hours max so he got back pretty late.  Saturday noon; he is thanking me for my work on the social media posts, dealing with emails and making meeting arrangements for next week. It’s not human! Or maybe, he is. He always thanks me for any work I do, I’ve never had anyone do that before and it really makes me feel appreciated, I don’t think that I’ve ever told him that. The problem is; with Keith getting back to work straight after 12 hours surgery, how the hell will I be able to pull a hangover induced sickie? I just don’t think I could do it, the guilt would be terrible!   Kasper out.

Poor Kasper has had to wait for quite some time for this post and I think he might be a bit disappointed; actually, I don’t really understand why he is so fascinated with the financial aspect of the project but it’s nice to be able to discuss this stuff with him. Personally, I’m rather frustrated with the ongoing saga of Brexit and the damage that it has done to not just Bluemoo and project Headshed but the European economy as a whole. It seems like an age since our rather excellent venture capitalist, Mike, informed me that London is shut for business until after Brexit. That’s a direct quote: “London is shut.” This was back in November 2018 and the prospect of waiting until the end of March to launch our next key stage funding campaign was ultimately manageable, albeit somewhat annoying. Yet here we are three months later, in fact where are we? Does anybody really know? I can only speak for Bluemoo and we need to raise considerable funds in order to ramp up our endeavours, and sadly this isn’t going to happen anytime soon. The Conservatives are currently in the midst of trying to decide who will lead their party after Mrs May’s ultimately doomed attempt at steering the UK to a successful Brexit. Given the last, nigh on, three years of faffing around getting absolutely nowhere and embarrassing Britain on a global stage week in and week out, I can’t wait for the next enthralling instalment of Brexit. Clearly I jest; like most people I’m sick to death of the whole unsightly affair but hey, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; when the world stops making sense it’s probably time to sit back and have a good old laugh. With this in mind, I’ll be running a series of posts that take a light-hearted look at the UK, as it stumbles through the next few months in the lead up to the final Brexit deal. Or at least the next few months in the lead up to the revised proposed exit date of October 2019, or at least until the revoking of article 50, or at least until a new “people’s” vote... or at least until the world enters a full Brexit generated economic meltdown and the whole Headshed project becomes meaningless along with life, the universe and everything else! Still, it’s not all doom and gloom at Bluemoo, far from it. Magnus has recently joined the crew and will be working on Headshed’s core mapping functions. Kevin is also making excellent progress with his recovery and will be working on our universal map marking system for video games very soon. Actually, it is probably worth mentioning that Barts hospital duped him: ”The Miracle Man” and that’s a great thing, because whilst miracles are happening the world can’t be all bad.     Keith Anderson - Managing Director

Sponsoring the Knighthood gaming clan is a no-brainer for us. Six years ago the Headshed concept was born from a desire to develop game winning strategies for the hack and slash, Chivalry Medieval Warfare. A couple of the Bluemoo crew originally met via the Knighthood so it’s nice to be able to support the guild that provided the anvil, upon which our initial concept was hammered out. Today the group are playing the newly released and really rather splendid, Mordhau. You can find out more about the Knighthood at www.knighthood.pro Kasper out.

The dark clouds over Bluemoo have lifted; Kevin, our Military Cartographer and dear friend of mine, is going to pull through! In fact, it is more than that, it’s something of a miracle. It was just a few days ago when his chances were less than 50-50 and now he is up about, after a fashion. He has six broken ribs from the CPR and resuscitation plus his vision isn’t great right now but that will all heal. I thought that we had lost him and now he wants to get back to work tomorrow, it really is miraculous the way he has bounced back to the land of the living. Well, he won’t be back at work next week, or the week after that. In fact he is on three weeks enforced leave from Bluemoo. I really don’t want him having another cardiac arrest, I don’t think that my heart could take it. Out of darkness come light and the concern from the Bluemoo crew just emphasized to me what a special group of people I have gathered together. Also special thanks to the avid follower of our progress who called the office to enquire. I won’t mention your name because I don’t have your permission to do so but your heartfelt concern brought more than one tear to my eye, bless you sweetheart, bless you. Anyone that spared a thought for Kevin has my most sincere gratitude. We haven’t had a “man down” in such a dramatic fashion before and I did have second thoughts about sharing but I’m a believer in the power of collective thought and to date I haven’t been proved wrong.

Keith Anderson - Managing Director

He has been my boss before. It was way way back in the eighties just before I joined the forces. I thought that I had such a great deal getting to drive Keith’s company car, I was just a kid at the time and I never dreamed of driving such a flashy motor. Happy memories. And here I am working with Mister A, again. I don’t really understand half of the stuff that we are working on but I have seen my son play some team games and it’s obvious that a bit of forward planning wouldn’t go a miss.  The whole Headshed thing makes so much sense and I can see where I can help. Orienteering is really my thing; it has been for ages, ever since I joined the cubs. I’m not sure if that’s a thing anymore; cubs and scouts, but it was a great way to get some space away from Hackney.   I guess I just love maps but it’s not just maps, it is the feeling from knowing your environment that you get when you are in a tricky situation. I don’t want to say that much about my time in the forces, for me it was an extension of my childhood that got real. It got really real. But I’m finding video games far more scarier, I still remember pong and the orange box! Video games these days are military simulators like the flight simulators, it’s all a bit too real if you ask me. And when I say scarier I mean; it’s the progress that scares me, things are moving at such a mad pace that I’m not sure where we will end up. I’m still struggling to get myself linked up with Bluemoo, what with all of the new kit that arrived, stuff that’s all new to me but I’ve read the Facebook posts and I feel like I know the Bluemoo crew already. I’m looking forward to getting stuck into the cartography but back in the eighties I ended up being a chauffeur for Keith, he hasn’t mentioned “additional driving duties” so I think I might be OK this time. It is a bit strange, the whole Headshed thing but I’m not surprised, what with the market in London falling through the floor, why wouldn’t he make a social media platform? In more ways than one it’s good to be back! Kevin Oliphant - Military Cartographer

Last but not least? Well, we will see. Have to say that I’ve really been enjoying reading the posts from the team but one thing that hasn’t been discussed is the Bluemoo social life. Obviously, we are geographically challenged when it comes to meeting up for a few beers after work on a Friday evening but there is definitely an online social aspect to Bluemoo. I’m a fair few thousand miles from the rest of the team yet that’s a polar opposite from how it actually feels or more importantly, how it actually works. I’ve been here a while now and from my experience I know that Bluemoo’s virtual meetings are typically more productive than my average face to face. I don’t know why that is the case, but it is. I guess that I’m preaching to the converted when I say that online team based gaming and its associated social aspect is connecting people across the planet in a great way. We are no different at Bluemoo, we get together online and it’s not all work! Bohemia Interactive’s DayZ Standalone is the company’s video game of choice and this has been pretty much the case for as long as I can remember. It’s a great vehicle for team bonding as the premise of the game beyond basic survival; is that the collective is stronger than the individual player. If it’s not work or a gaming session we do sometimes just meet online for a chat. The boss came up with “elevenses” which I believe is a reference to drinking tea (typical Brit). Basically, we got together at 11:00 am GMT on a Thursday with absolutely no meeting agenda, sounds a bit pointless but those gatherings turned out to be the most productive meetings ever (genius). Thankfully, we have now changed the time to 7:00 pm so now I get to join in with what we are now calling “seven elevenses”, which is actually a reference that I can follow since we have the same convenience stores over here. It can get a bit confusing at times from my side of the pond but I've always been told that Englishmen are eccentric and from my experience I can confirm that it is very much the case. Access to opinions from all across Europe is my little bonus that I get from the Bluemoo team. Although, I refuse to call our Independence Day, as Keith suggests “You won, get over it Day”, and I’m certainly not going to call American football  “hand egg” no matter how many times Elling tells me that it’s logical. Stick to your soccer boys! Brook Buckelew - Art Director